Name: Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution (en Inglés)
Price: 17690.00 CLP
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Author: Dawkins, Richard
ISBN: 9781838937867

portada Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Richard Dawkins

Editorial

Head of Zeus

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781838937867

Categorías

Literatura juvenil: biografías y autobiografías
Pájaros y aves
ciencia y tecnología para jóvenes

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution (en Inglés)

Richard Dawkins (Autor) · Head of Zeus · Tapa Blanda

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The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the treetops, soaring and swooping, playing and dodging through the third dimension. Computer games, virtual reality headsets, and some drugs can lift our imagination and fly us through fabled, magical spaces. But it's not the real thing. No wonder some of the past's greatest minds, including Leonardo da Vinci's, have yearned for flying machines and struggled to design them.Flights of Fancy is a book about flying - all the different ways of defying gravity that have been discovered by humans over the centuries and by other animals over the millions of years, from the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but magnificent bird Argentavis magnificens, to the Wright Flyer and the 747. But it also means flights of digression into more general ideas and principles that take off from a discussion about actual flight.Fascinating and elegantly written, this is a unique collaboration between one of the world's leading zoologists and a talented artist, and perfect for enquiring teenage minds.